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Stop Motion is a technique of animation involving physical models as opposed to drawings or CGI. The models have to be moved for every frame. This sort of thing can take a ''very'' long time to film. |
Stop Motion is a technique of animation involving physical models as opposed to drawings or CGI. The models have to be moved for every frame. This sort of thing can take a ''very'' long time to film. |
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The models used can be made of anything, from hard plastic to foam rubber to metal. Rogue independent animator [[Mike Jittlov]] has been known to animate anything and everything with Stop Motion, including himself (see his famous shorts ''Fashionation'', ''The Wizard of Speed and Time'' and ''Mouse Mania''). |
The models used can be made of anything, from hard plastic to foam rubber to metal. Rogue independent animator [[Mike Jittlov]] has been known to animate anything and everything with Stop Motion, including himself (see his famous shorts ''[[Fashionation]]'', ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (short)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'' and ''Mouse Mania''). |
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At one time, this was the default method for producing a non-human characters in special effects, along with puppetry. Stop motion characters would be matted into shots along with live actors. [[Ray Harryhausen]] was a leading practitioner and innovator of the art; his last stop-motion film was 1981's ''[[Clash of the Titans]].'' The technique has been supplanted almost entirely by CGI from the 1980's on. |
At one time, this was the default method for producing a non-human characters in special effects, along with puppetry. Stop motion characters would be matted into shots along with live actors. [[Ray Harryhausen]] was a leading practitioner and innovator of the art; his last stop-motion film was 1981's ''[[Clash of the Titans]].'' The technique has been supplanted almost entirely by CGI from the 1980's on. |
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* The ''[[Paddington]]'' TV series from the 1970s-80s used [[Medium Blending]] with a stop-motion bear for the main character and animated paper cutouts for everyone else. |
* The ''[[Paddington]]'' TV series from the 1970s-80s used [[Medium Blending]] with a stop-motion bear for the main character and animated paper cutouts for everyone else. |
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* As the [[Transformers]] toys became more poseable and screen accurate it has become more common for fans to create their own stop motion Transformers ''series'' or recreate a battle scene, especially from [[Transformers Film Series|the movies]] for their memorable action sequences. |
* As the [[Transformers]] toys became more poseable and screen accurate it has become more common for fans to create their own stop motion Transformers ''series'' or recreate a battle scene, especially from [[Transformers Film Series|the movies]] for their memorable action sequences. |
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* The work of [[Mike Jittlov]], most notably ''Mouse Mania'' (made for Disney's 1978 ''Mickey's 50th'' special), ''Fashionation'', and ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time ( |
* The work of [[Mike Jittlov]], most notably ''Mouse Mania'' (made for Disney's 1978 ''Mickey's 50th'' special), ''[[Fashionation]]'', and ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (short)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'' (also made for Disney). |
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